Francis immigrated to South Africa in 1977 and first worked as Shift Engineer and Manager for Eskom at Kriel and Matla Power Stations. He relocated to Cape Town in 1980 and spent four years working with Framatome (now AREVA) at Koeberg Power Station as Start Up and Commissioning Engineer. On successful completion of the commissioning of Koeberg, he transferred back to Eskom (Koeberg), where he managed the first three refuelling outages.In 1988, he left Eskom and took up the position of Managing Director and Major shareholder for Intens, a service engineering company which he grew into a successful engineering and project management organisation. Following this, Francis teamed up with Eric McDonald in 2000 to establish Lesedi Engineering.Francis is now the CEO of Lesedi Nuclear Services where he plays a pivotal role in power generation. He has a passion for the nuclear industry, localisation and empowerment.Francis is especially proud of the 25 years of providing maintenance and upgrades to Eskom’s Koeberg Nuclear Power station. “Lesedi Nuclear Services is a significant EPC organisation in the African power industry. Our organisation is exceptionally well positioned to execute bespoke EPC contracts for nuclear, biomass, waste to energy, gas to power and coal power plants in South Africa and other strategically identified power projects on the African continent.”